AI Armies Circling Each Other

[RagnarTheDunce]

Hello,

I am using Floris Mod Pack Expanded and usually during larger battles, the AI armies circle each other from quite a distance at least once around the battlefield before charging at each other. This means no combat actually happens until about 10 minutes into the actual battle. Is there some sort of text file I can edit in order to make both opposing armies charge straight at each other from the moment the battle begins?

I'm also using Warband Battle Size Increase, and have set it to 400. However, I am in the King's army and his party alone has 500 men in it. During battles, there can be up to 1000 men fighting.

Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope somebody can help.

 

[Caba`drin]

Are you enlisted as a soldier in the army? (I would think you are free-lancing when you see this, yes?)

If that's the case, you're dealing with the formations AI not being constructed to deal with 2 AI armies facing one another. Two options: 1) Turn off Formations AI in the mod options, at least until you are leading the armies yourself; 2) Try to trigger the battle start by riding out from your army and sniping a couple of the enemy army to get the battle to the next phase (which will start once someone dies)

I've been meaning to take a gander and see if there's a quick check I can throw in to prevent this when it is AI vs AI. If you are enlisted when this is happening, I'll try to actually make that edit and get you a .txt tweak.

 

[Redleg]

I have seen this happen too, when playing as a enlisted freelancer, but with formations turned off.  From my experience, when formations are on, there seems to be much less "circling" and dithering around then when formations are off.  This is also my experience with other mods having Freelancer and PBOD.